CURRICULUM VITAE PERSONAL INFORMATION Name Taubert, Nick Address Wöhrdstraße 1 72072 Tübingen Germany Telephone +49163/68 27 456 E-mail nick.taubert@gmail.com Nationality German Date of birth 1 July 1977 EDUCATION 04/2010 to present PhD student, Section for Computational Sensomotorics, Dept. for Cognitive Neurology, Hertie Institute for Clinical Brain Research & Centre for Integrative Neurocience, University Clinic Tuebingen http://www.compsens.uni-tuebingen.de Responsibilities: Teaching assistant for Machine Learning II, Graduate School of Neural Information Processing, University of Tuebingen http://www.neuroschool-tuebingen-comput.de Machine learning models for emotional interactions Psychophysical studies for emotional interactions in virtual reality 09/2005 08/2009 HTWK Leipzig, Germany (university of applied science) Master of Science for media informatics Modules included: Multimedia-based information systems Digital signal processing and digital filters 3D design and dynamics Operating systems (advanced training course) Thesis: Match Moving as an essential component of Visual Effects Nick Taubert, Wöhrdstraße 1, 72072 Tübingen, Germany
09/2002 10/2005 HTWK Leipzig, Germany (university of applied science) Bachelor of Science for media informatics Modules included: Virtual reality Computer graphics Computer animation Operating systems Thesis: Realisation of an universal communication interface between Maxon Cinema 4D 9.1 und Virtools Dev 3.0 09/2001 07/2002 Gutenbergschule (college), Leipzig 09/1992 07/1996 Käthe-Kollwitz-Gymnasium (grammar school), Zwickau 09/1984 07/1992 Dittes Oberschule (elementary school), Zwickau WORK EXPERIENCE 04/2009 03/2010 Student assistant, Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Leipzig http://www.cbs.mpg.de/ Responsibilities: Motion capturing Computer animation 09/2004 02/2005 Trainee, Mediaseasons, Leipzig http://www.mediaseasons.com Responsibilities: Game programming for pocked devices 06/2000 07/2001 Civilian Service, Michaelis-Friedens-Kirchgemeinde, Leipzig 09/1999 05/2000 Skilled worker 08/1996 08/1999 Apprenticeship as skilled worker PUBLICATIONS 2014 Velychko, D., Endres, D., Taubert, N., and Giese, M. A. (2014). Coupling gaussian process dynamical models with product-ofexperts kernels. Accepted for presentation at the Proceedings of the 24th International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks (ICANN2014), page 8 Nick Taubert, Wöhrdstraße 1, 72072 Tübingen, Germany
2013 Taubert, N., Löffler, M., Ludolph, N., Christensen, A., Endres, D., and Giese, M. A. (2013). A virtual reality setup for controllable, stylized real-time interactions between humans and avatars with sparse Gaussian process dynamical models. In Proceedings of the ACM Symposium on Applied Perception, SAP 13, pages 41 44, New York, NY, USA. ACM 2012 Taubert, N., Christensen, A., Endres, D., and Giese, M. A. (2012a). Online simulation of emotional interactive behaviors with hierarchical Gaussian process dynamical models. In Proceedings of the ACM Symposium on Applied Perception - SAP 12, volume 1, pages 25 32, New York, New York, USA. ACM Press Christensen, A., Taubert, N., in t Veld E., H., de Gelder B., and Giese, M. A. (2012). Percpetion of emotion from interactive body movement: influence of emotion congruency. Vision Sciences Society Annual Meeting 2012, 11-16 May 2012. not reviewed Taubert, N., Christensen, A., Endres, D., and Giese, M. A. (2012b). Perception of synthetically generated interactive human emotional body expressions. European Conference on Visual Perception, ECVP 2012, Alghero, Italy. not reviewed 2011 Taubert, N. and Endres, D. (2011). Shaking Hands in Latent Space. In Edelkamp, S. and Bach, J., editor, KI 2011: Advances in Artificial Intelligence, LNAI, pages 330 334, Berlin. Springer SKILLS Informatics Computer graphics Languages Driving C ++, C#, Java, Python, Matlab, MySQL, PHP, XML 3D applications: Maya, 3dsMAX, Cinema4D, ZBrush, Motion Builder, Match Mover Engines: Ogre, Unity Visual Effects: Nuke, After Effects German first language English very good knowledge in writing and speaking Russian basic reading and writing skills Full current clean driving license INTERESTS Computer graphics and computer animation Music produktion Programming Nick Taubert, Wöhrdstraße 1, 72072 Tübingen, Germany